Our friends at CityLab churned out the must-read of the day yesterday — a piece that not only raises the question of how we can rid Manhattan of cars, but also offers incredible renderings (see above!) and urban planning maps to show how we can do it.

If the story isn’t in Mayor de Blasio’s press briefing book today, Seth Stein should apologize to the entire city.

In other news yesterday:

Curbed also got into the livable cities business with a strong package: Diana Budds explained why safe streets are an equity issue, which was paired with a personal essay on the importance of parks and playgrounds for disabled people.

Jose Martinez at The City dropped a bombshell: Gov. Cuomo’s last-minute decision to scrap the full L-train shutdown will result in far more expensive work to Manhattan stations that would have been “piggy-back” repaired during the full shutdown.

City & State rounded up a bunch of stories on the city’s medallion taxi crisis, including a Q-and-A with Marcus Crespo and Jessica Ramos on legislative fixes.

The New York Times’s “Climate FWD” newsletter advised Americans to consider “walking, biking or taking public transport” if they want to save the planet. We know: little steps for little feet!

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams got into a spat with a Twitter troll — and as a result, the borough is getting a long-overdue public hearing on placard abuse! (Patch)

After Streetsblog broke the news yesterday, the Post, Crain’s and amNY reported that Google’s crowd-sourced transit app, Pigeon, has expanded beyond the subways to other transit services in the New York region.

A woman smashed the windshields of six NYPD Smart cars outside of Hudson Yards in Manhattan (NYDN)

In more feminine malfeasance, two women are being sought for stabbing a man on the 4 train at Grand Central on Tuesday, according to NY1.

Not Just Bikes had this tweet that made us wonder, yet again, “Why Can’t We Have That Great Thing?” The Netherlands polices illegally parked vehicles with “scanner cars” that can check 1,200 license plates an hour.

And, finally, our gristled old editor cut out of work early to ride on the new Kosciuszko Bridge bike path and, frankly, was upset at how hard it was to get to … and from. (The Tabloid of Record agreed with him.)

I enjoyed making history as one of the first cyclists on the new Kosciuszko Bridge bike path. Now I’m calling on @NYC_DOT to actually connect it to safe routes on both sides of the span! pic.twitter.com/OQizvMhskr

Many candidates endorsed the general concept of reducing car traffic and improving bus service and bicycling, but few would commit to the specific idea of a 14th Street dedicated solely to car-free transportation.

The mayor must keep the streetscape improvements — the bus lanes, the bike lanes, the carpool restrictions, the 14th Street busway, the ferries, the extended G trains, etc. — that were set in place for the L-train shutdown.

Volunteers from Transportation Alternatives rallied on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge last night to call on the city to prioritize Grand Street for buses, bicycling, and walking when the MTA shuts down the western portion of the L train for 18 months to make Sandy-related repairs. Every day, New Yorkers make hundreds of thousands of trips on the […]